I absolutely love the knitting abacus bracelets from Hide and Sheep (list to the right to see all the bracelets) and they're giving THREE away to lucky commenters! Leave a comment below to be entered — I'll draw the winners on Friday. Good luck!
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That bracelet is wonderful! Some people are just so smart and talented! I would love one!
Rachael not only do I love your books. But I love those bracelets or boobles as my grandmother would call them. Went to there site and can’t find the stitch markers. Love that Idea.
Pretty and useful – excellent!
If I don’t win, I’m buying one of those! So cute and handy.
love it! i’d heard of them, but never seen a video speling out how they work. THANK YOU for making this!
I asked for one for my birthday and my husband finally confessed he had no clue what I was talking about so if I could just get one and hand it to him to give me, he’d be happy to get me one… lol.
Rachel, be a dear and help a girl out… love ya buckets!
I have become a knitting FIEND this holiday season, so this would be VERY helpful! And, I <3 your hair! 😀
happy holidays all
not sure i’ve ever seen one but my blind friend uses them exclusively. I can’t even tell you how many pages of notes I must write down as i do each row. wow it’d be way too easy to get used to using a wrist one.
thanks for the giveaway,
Julie
Very cool! Ineed more counting tools….now only if I could remember to use them!
I would love to win this, as i’m going in to hospital soon for a neck operation and then hernia operation, and plan to knit in hospital and recovery. im only 32 and feel bad i’m leaving kids soon to get this done. wishing all the others goodluck to for the competition.
Cool! I really want one!
WOW! I’ve never seen these before!!! Love the idea and would love even more to win one!
Wow I love these. Did not know about them!
Digit complains just like my cat does!
Love these.
Digit! Digit! Digit!!! lovelovelove…
Sweet giveaway, thanks, Rachael! more Digit, plz.
Love the lipstick and love the abacii!
Would love to be in to win one of those
Beautiful and functional, what a terrific idea.
And I especially love your black cat and Digit’s voice.
As a somewhat beginning knitter I’m constantly getting lost in my stiches. Tried counters but then I would forget to do those too. Yes, I’m a lunchbox as far as knitting goes, but I haven’t given up yet! The bracelet would be a nice addition to my otherwise minimal collection of knitting aids! Just wished you lived closer to the East Coast, I think you would be a fun person to be around! Have a fabulous day!
Hooray for bonus digit! My girl-cat definitely makes that same sound when she’s displeased!
Hi Rachael! How rad would it be to win one of these! Hoping to be the lucky comment 🙂 love Digit – such a cutie! I’ve been knitting up a storm this winter and just taught one of my girlfriends how to knit last week! I finally went to Piedmont Yarn too – triple LOVE! Happy Holidays xoxo
definitely a good idea, love to have one. it would make life easer when I’m knitting, when Joe want to talk.lol
What a great idea! I could definitely use the abacus.
What a clever and beautiful idea!
What a great video! Thank you for showing us how the bracelets work, and I hope I win one!
Beautiful! I’d love to win. 🙂
That is so cool! I’ve never seen them before.
Knitting and jewelry combined! Two of my favorites in one!
ooh, shiny! 🙂
Pretty things! (And I’m glad to see video evidence that I’m not the only one who talks to cats like that.)
Love a chance to win one of those beautiful bracelets!
Thanks so much!
So that’s how those work! I’ve looked at pictures and couldn’t quite wrap my head around it. Thanks! And for the feline enhancement as well. Fingers crossed!
LOve the idea of a bracelet…..need it…..want it…..
btw I just finished your last book…..oooooo I loved it…thanks for a good read
I love that! What a great idea.
I’ve never seen anything so cool and I’ve been knitting for over 40 years. I would LOVE to win one! Thank you!
Oh I’ve been wanting one of these! I would love ever so much to win one. mimsfam at gmail dot com
What an awesome idea! And lovely, too. I would love to win one.
Oooh, those look awesome! Please add me to the hat.
I never knew how to use one, great information!
Oh yay! So glad to know how those work. I’d love to win one. LOVE the bonus shot of cranky Digit. He cracks me up!
Bonus Digit shot! My, what a growly cat he is. My Tyler is like that when he feels GOOD (how I know he’s “off”? He’s quiet and friendly, LOL).
Very pretty bracelet and a simply genius idea! Do they have purple ones?
That is really interesting. What a great idea.
I haven’t seen anything like it.
That bracelet is genius! I usually do hash marks on a Post-it but I’m always losing them.
What a clever idea! I’ll need to look into these more closely. In the meantime here is my entry – thanks for the opportunity to win.
If I win one I will definitely call it a booble, as did Sue Patterson’s grandmother!
Those bracelets are lovely!
So, we are doing demonstration speeches (not protest demonstation but how to demonstrations) in class and I have to use this as a good example of speaking…
I love these things, and have been eyeing them from various vendors for about a million years. I’ve never broken down and obought one though. I’d still love and use one. 😉
P.S. as a fellow chronic migraine sufferer, my bed of nails pain (anti-pain?) pillow is on the way to try. I am intrigued, and hopeful! Thank you for sharing.
Stealth jewelry, disguising a tool. Love it!
I would love to win one of these yay!!
What a novel idea!!!! I never come up with thesethings!!!
So cool! And they’re really pretty too.
I need one! Thanks.
Way cool…. Got to love counting and purpose wrapped into one!
I have been looking at these! I would love to have one. If I don’t win, I’m buying one for myself! Thanks for the chance to win.
So very cool- I love it!
I love these I have one with Ladybugs….
When I first read “knitting abacus bracelet” I thought, “I understand those words, but not in that order.” I’m glad you did a video demo, I don’t think I would have been able to grasp a written explanation.
What a clever bracelet that is!
I’d LOVE one of those nifty bracelets! Please pick me!
Wonderful bracelets!
I especially appreciate that Digit gave us attitude. That just seemed right.
Those bracelets are awesome. I’ll not want to take them off!
I’ve been checking these out and soooo want one. Your demonstration was terrific.
WOW!! that is great as a newbee im in love with kntting have only been knitting for a month, im a Quilter., but im a knitter to Now! and very proud of it.. the bracelet is fab! wow so cute so much nicer then my little red cliking box counter, its a must have, I see.. would love to have one, thanks for showing it to us and glad you got a new one….
Digit rules! You have to love those “Heathcliffs”
Knitting abacus is a great idea, and I will have to have one……….dark scary music…….one way or another!
I love things that are both pretty and useful!
Comment, comment. Thanks for the chance! 🙂 XO
Oh, that’s amazing!
Those bracelets are so cool!
I have always wanted to try those! Plus they look so pretty! 😀
Ohhhh I want one! They’re AWESOME!
Pick me! Pick me!
What a great idea, and I love the colour of your demonstration one!
That is a beautiful and useful item! I looked at her shop and think all her items are lovely.
Purty!
A much more elegant way of counting rows than the plastic row counter I use now or hash marks on a piece of paper.
How pretty!!! I have never used one of these before. Thanks for the opportunity to win one! 🙂
What a clever idea! I’m always losing my stitch counter thingy, and am way too lazy to activate the knitting app on my feeble iPhone. So this could work for me. Besides, I’m a jewelry girl.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh, lovely! That is a great give away. The second best would be an acupuncture pillow 🙂
I just found out about those. YOU ROCK giving three away!!!
Great stuff — and generous giveaway. Thanks for the chance!
Happy Holidays!
Donna
Hi Rachael, I would love to win the Abacus bracelet. Fantastic idea. Ear scritch to Digit!
Rachael-I came here to tell you how much I enjoyed Wishes and Stitches to find you are giving away a fabulous useful piece of jewelry! Love both!
Beautiful bracelets!
Brilliant! Function and fashion, can’t ask for anything more.
I absolutely *LOVE* their stitch markers. Have commissioned multiple sets in various sizes and beads. These are the markers I make sure NOT to lose! To be honest I’ve never figured out how that bracelet works – but not that I know it is magic! Thanks for the opportunity to test it in person!
Happy knitting to everyone!
Great video! Thanks for the giveaway!
What a great idea!
I love them! I have decided that 2012 will be my year for knitting sweaters (I’ve never knit a sweater) & I’ll need a row counter. 🙂
What a wild video!! I was blown away by awesomeness of it. Don’t you just love love love the internet?
I would love to win, thanks!
Genious idea! I would love to win one!
LOVE your books! I actually have some awesome stitch markers from Hide and Sheep, and would be so excited to add this to my knitting tools! Thanks!
I would LOVE to try one of those out! Awesome!!
This looks like a very clever product!
Those bracelets are super-d-duper awesome!!! I might have to order one (or ten)! Thanks for the kitty shots. Love it!!
Hugs!
So cool! Love it!
I never quite understood how they worked before when I saw them around. Very cool and useful. I love it when form and function come together in something so pretty.
Ooh, cool, sparkly, knitting tools that I love! Thank you!
Great idea! Even if I win, I’ll have to buy one for my sis who is a compulsive user of row counters. Jo
More accordion videos! Please.
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!
How rad would it be to win one of these! Hoping to be the lucky comment 🙂 love Digit – such a cutie! I’ve been knitting up a storm this winter and just taught one of my girlfriends how to knit last week! I finally went to Piedmont Yarn too – triple LOVE
I have decided that 2012 will be my year for knitting sweaters (I’ve never knit a sweater) & I’ll need a row counter. 🙂
Ordered stitch markers from your ETSY shop for ME!
Very cute….will revisit!
Much prettier (and more practical)than my usual method of moving stray objects from one side of the table to the other!
Adorable! 🙂
I would love one. thanks! Debbie H
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I just finished reading all your books – love them! Can’t wait for more!
Also very intrigued by these bracelets. Hope I win!
OOOO VERY COOL!
Would love to win one! (Especially since all of my row counters are currently committed to other projects, which is a sad state of affairs. Hopefully I’ll also contract a case of Finishitis here before Christams.)
Same as Cheryl at the top: I’m buying one of those if I don’t win. Very cool.
I love these bracelets! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I spent a while at their Etsy shop — beautiful pieces! Thanks for letting us know about them!
Ooh, ooh, maybe if I don’t win one Santa will bring me one. I’ll have to put it on my wish list.
Knitting bling for the holidays, yes!!! This is so much prettier than the red and white counter I use on a piece of knicker elastic tied around my wrist.
-Judy
Wow–cool idea! Thanks!
I love Hide and Sheep. I have a ton of their stitch markers and the bracelet. You don’t need to enter me in the contest. I just wanted to say love the video on how to use it. I never used mine, just like to look at it but next time I need to keep track, it’s coming out.
That is the coolest row counter I have seen. And I also love the kitty shots. 🙂
Thanks so much for the video, and for the chance!
How neat and what a great idea! If I don’t win this, I am going to make it a Christmas gift to me.
I’d love one of these! They look so neat.
I love those! So pretty. I’m such a jewelry-hound, too.
Those are awesome…especially since I tend to lose count of the row I’m on almost immediately:)I love the idea.
Love your book and love the bracelets!
Huh. So simple, why have I been struggling with post-its and punching holes in my patterns (seriously) for so long?
Pretty and useful! I love it.
Rachael, nice to see the pretty smile ” in person.”. Love the bracelets-what a clever idea, cool and functional.
Okay I never win any thing but yet still I enter because if you don’t enter then you have no chance to win and we all want at least one chance to win. okay crossing fingers now hey crossing toes too. 😉
Adorable and brilliant! I’d love one.
Add me to the list of knitters who want one! So glad I found your blog. Next, to request one of your books from the library.
Dang! Those are awesome and just what a forgetful girl like me needs!
Fun! Maybe I could make one, but I’d sure like to win one. XXO
Love them. Want one. Rachael — you’ve had an amazing year. I hope for many more to come….
I dont normally comment but geez – would I ever love to have one of those “brace-row-counter-lets”. Hey, it could even double as a mini-mala (kinda- bead count not quite right) great for all the zen knitter types out there.
Thanks for the giveaway. Love your blog. Second that “more accordion videos” request.
Beautiful and useful, sounds like my kind of gadget. Thanks!
I Love these bracelets–so clever!
Brilliant! I love the design. SOOO much nicer than those little red and white stitch and row counters. I would love to have one. Please pick me!
Super cute idea. I’m always loosing my row counter in the middle of a project. You’d never loose this one.
Love the hair colour by the way.
me and my kids – pretty please! son is adhd and aspie, oh heck i’ll order my own if i don’t win.
So pretty and smart! Would be much better than my imperfect system of postits and index cards. Bought your book My LIfe in Stitches as a gift to myself and loved it.
Wow, even if I don’t win, that video of you is enough of a present! Yay! Also, those bracelets are awesome and I would be honored to have one. 🙂
I love these. They are really wonderful. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one. I want one.
Pick me!!!
You are so cute 😉
Thanks for the giveaway! hope i win!! *needles crossed*
😉
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Nice! I would love to win one.
Very awesome! Very cool!!!!!!!
Oh they are just lovely!!! Thank you for posting about them! I’d like to win just like everyone else, so I might just have to buy some instead!
So cool. I could really use one of these little guys.
Ooooh, so pretty! Please enter me in the drawing.
Those bracelets are cute and clever. I loved seeing the kitties too!
Yes please! Very cute–happy for the chance to win.
Hi Digit!
thanks for the video. the bracelets seem so handy and would be a great christmas gift.
what a great idea!!
wow, what a cool idea! i totally going to the website now to check those out, because i think I might need one of those marker/counter things too. thanks for sharing!
Woo! Pretty. I compulsively count, so this would serve me well… and maybe set me free. A little bit.
; )
What a great idea. Love both of the ones that showed in the video. Love your books. I have not seen this idea here in New Zealand
THAT BRACELET is amazing!! that is the neatist idea ever ans so practical! i have never seen anything like that! Helenc
what an awesome idea! beautiful bracelets.
What a great idea!
Ooh, I would love one of these!
Hi Rachael, Thanks for doing this giveaway on your blog, I would love to win one of those!
Also, I’ve been meaning to write to you and let you know how much I’ve enjoyed the Cypress Hollow books. I’ve listened to all 3 from Audible and just had a great feeling in my heart after each one. I’ve become really attached to the characters and hope there will be more someday. Thank you for the wonderful books!
I put them on my xmas list!
Those are amazing and I have often thought I wanted one! Also, your post on the acupuncture pillow was really interesting. I’ve recommended it to a friend.
These bracelets are fantastic! I would love to have one. I also love the second row counter you demonstrated. Goodness, products like these might just persuade me to actually keep track of my knitting rather than getting frustrated when one sleeve is longer than the other (or is it one sleeve is shorter than the other?!).
Came over from Twitter because you told me to. They look lovely!
These are so cooool!!
You look so cute in that video! And your kittehs too!
<3
Very cool!
Brilliant. I have never seen these bracelets and they are the perfect gift for my knitters! Who knew? Not me.
As always, thanks Rachael, and as a side note, your hair looks FAB. Gives me the courage to stick with the “grow out”!
What a great giveaway! Those bracelets have always fascinated me but I haven’t tried one yet. 🙂
What a great idea!!!
Why didn’t I think of that? Very cute
OH, I would so love one of these! And I’m going to get that pillow of nails, too! Thanks for the giveaway!
OMG I really want one of these. Just awesome idea.
Those are amazing!
I am new to knitting and that is just the best idea (i have the hardeest time tracking my row counts…..love them!
Gorgeous! Would love to be one of the lucky three!!!!
Digit reminds me of my kitty, I’ll be held/displayed when I want to be, thank you very much!
Love your books, love your blog. Would love to win a row counter bracelet!
Happy Holidays! 🙂